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MEASURING ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM OUTER SPACE J. Vernon Henderson Adam Storeygard David N. Weil Working Paper 15199 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15199
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We thank Chris Elvidge for advice and auxiliary data; Andrew Foster, Stefan Hoderlein, Blaise Melly, Daniel Orenstein, Matt Turner, and seminar participants at Brown University, Princeton University, the XXVI International Population Conference of the IUSSP, the 2008 BREAD/CEPR/Verona Summer School on Development Economics, the Urban Economics Association, the Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (Milan, 2009), the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, and the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America for comments; and Joshua Wilde and Isabel Tecu for research assistance. We thank the editor and anonymous referees for comments that were instrumental in improving the paper. Storeygard acknowledges support from Award Number T32HD007338 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2009 by J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.
Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil NBER Working Paper No. 15199 July 2009, Revised December 2010 JEL No. E01,O47,Q1,R11 ABSTRACT GDP growth is often measured poorly for...